Rifle-foresight.



F. G. SCOTT.

RIFLE FORESIGHT.

AIPLIOATION IILED AUG. 3. 1908.

906,943. v Patented Dec.15,1908.

FREDERICK C. Scorn J/ZWI I N I UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RIFLE-FORE SIGHT.

Application filed August 3, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Serial No. 4.46597.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. SooTT, citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at I-Iornby Island, in the Province of BritishColumbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement inRifle-Foresights, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a rifle foresight designed to afford inaiming, a sighting bead of a color suited to the background or to thecondition of the light, in meeting which re quirement the foresight isconstructed of two sight arts having different and contrasting co ore,of which the one nearer the back sight, the color of which is suited toa dark background or a dull light is susceptible of being folded down,exposing to view the one permanently fixed to the block and which iscolored to suit a light background or a strong light.

The invention is articularly described in the following specification,reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, inwhich:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the muzzle end of a rifle barrelhaving my improved foresight, the nearer leaf of which is folded clearof the line of sight as shown in full lines, and by dot and dash linesin the in-use position. Fig. 2, a vertical cross section to an enlargedscale through the foresight block showing the means by which the foldingleaf is retained in either desired position of up-or down, and Fig. 3,shows to the same enlarged scale the two principal elements of the sightdetached.

In these drawings the rifle barrel is represented by 2 and the block ofthe foresight, which may be attached to the barrel in any suitablemanner, by 3. To this block 3 the fixed leaf 4 is secured and ispreferably enameled a bright scarlet as affording the best color foraiming in a strong light or against a white background such as snow.

Pivotally mounted in the block 3 so as to be movable on an axis parallelto that of the rifle barrel 2 is the movable leaf 5, which is of ivoryor similar material or enameled a dead white which is the most favorablecolor for a dull light or when aiming against a dark background. In Fig.1 this sight is shown by full lines as folded down in the out-of-useposition. The stem 6 of this leaf 5 passes through the block 3 and issecured therein by a small bearing pin 9 inserted at right angles to theaxis of the stem 6 and held by a spring 10 in engagement with flattenedsquares 7 on the stem 6, the spring 10 and bearing spring 9 being heldin place by a small nut 11 threaded into the aperture in the blockthrough which the stem is inserted. The leaf 5 may thus be turned toeither side out of the line of sight or be turned up into the line ofsight, and will be retained in either position by the spring operatedbearing in 9 engaging the flats 7 of the stem 6.

Aithough the sights 4 and 5 are described as leaf sights it is obviousthat they may be so shaped as to show a head in the line of sightwithout departing from the spirit of the invention which consistschiefly in the application of a movable foresight folding out of theline of sight on an axis parallel to that of the rifle barrel.

The sights may if found necessary be protected by a guard or hood.

Having now particularly described my invention and the manner of itsuse, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to beprotected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. A rifle foresight comprising a fixed sight a movable leaf adjacentpivotally mounted so as to turn on an axis parallel to that of therifle, and means for checking the movable leaf in the in, and out of,position in reference to the line of sight.

2. A rifle foresight comprising a fixed sight member and a movable sightmember adj acent each of distinctive contrasting colors the movablesight being pivotally mounted on an axis parallel to that of the riflebarrel, and means for checking the movable sight in the in, and out of,positions in reference to the line of sight.

3. In a rifle foresight, the combination with a fixed sight member of abright scarlet color of a movable sight member adj acent of a dead Whitepivotally mounted on an axis parallel to that of the rifle barrel, and aspring check on the stem of the movable sight retaining it in thedesired positions in or out of use.

4. In a rifle sight the combination with a fixed sight member of amovable sight member having a stem on which it is movable on name tothis specification in the presenceof an axis parallel to that of therifle barrel, flats two subscribing witnesses.

on the stem and a spring bearin on the flats that will retain themovable si ght in place FhEDERIOK CHARLES SCOPE 5 and check it in thepositions of in, or out of Witnesses:

use. THOMAS A. L. SMITH,

In testimony whereof I have signed my WVILLIAM DAY.

